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Understanding of the carbon and water cycle of terrestrial ecosystems
In the frame of the ESA-TROPOSIF project, NOVELTIS is in charge of elaborating and validating a new SIF product from Sentinel-5p data and of its exploitation to improve global scale

Specification, prototyping and scientific validation of IASI-NG processing suite
The mission allows the monitoring greenhouse gases, clouds, aerosols, ozone and trace gases. The main objective of IASI-NG is to provide observations of the atmosphere for the weather prediction. The

Sentinel Next Generation (2028-2032)
NOVELTIS is involved, alongside ESA and Airbus Defence and Space, in the preparation of the future Sentinel Next Generation missions, which aim to replace the current Sentinel satellites by 2028-2032.

SCARBO: A constellation of small satellites for monitoring greenhouse gases
SCARBO project aims at solving a key challenge of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) monitoring from space: improve the temporal revisit over the various sites of interest while meeting the accuracy

Potential of the Moon as a calibration target for IASI instruments
NOVELTIS has done a study to evaluate the interest of selecting the Moon as a source of radiometric calibration for IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) instruments. As part of an

Meteosat Third Generation
NOVELTIS is involved in the preparation of the EUMETSAT’s next generation of geostationary satellites, called Meteosat Third Generation (MTG). The new MTG satellites will provide enhanced imaging capacities, including a

Identification of new sandy Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Sites (PICS)
NOVELTIS has done an analysis of satellite image time series in the optical range to identify new sites that could be used for on-flight calibration of satellites and the generation

High-resolution ocean tide modelling
High-resolution global and regional tidal models to improve the accuracy of the sea surface heights measured by satellite altimetry. The ocean tide is a dominant process of the ocean circulation

Generating an a priori command to monitor hydrological targets elevation through spatial altimetry
In the frame of the OLTC project, NOVELTIS is in charge of elaborating Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for Sentinel-3A&B and Jason-3 altimetry missions and validating the data acquired over hydrological

Fiducial Reference Measurements for Sentinel-3 and beyond
In the frame of the ESA St3TART-FO project, NOVELTIS leads a 20-partner consortium delivering Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM) to support the calibration and validation of the Sentinel-3 SAR altimeter over

Evaluation of future satellite missions for GHG surface emission retrievals
NOVELTIS has developed, in collaboration with the LSCE, a unique System Simulator of the theoretical performances of MicroCarb and MERLIN satellite missions for atmospheric GHG monitoring in terms of expected

Database to simulate spectro-directional reflectance of the Earth surface
The ADAM climatological database and toolkit developed by NOVELTIS enable the calculation of realistic narrow-band reflectance values over the spectral 240-4000 nm range (at 1 nm spectral resolution) and in

Building the Calibration and Validation Roadmap for CRISTAL's Hydro-Cryo Products
In the frame of the ESA CRISTAL IN-PROVA project, NOVELTIS leads an 8-partner consortium establishing the calibration and validation roadmap for CRISTAL’s Level-2 Hydro-Cryo data products, combining direct comparison with

Automatized Atmospheric Absorption Atlas
4A/OP, a fast & accurate operational forward radiative transfer model. 4A/OP is a user-friendly radiative transfer model for various scientific applications, co-developed by NOVLETIS and Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, with
